# carocha
## Galician
### Alternative forms

* carrocha, caroucha, crocha

### Etymology

Unknown. Possibly from a substrate language. Compare carolo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [kaˈɾɔ.t͡ʃɐ]

### Noun

carocha f (plural carochas)
* corn husk or shuck
    Synonyms: follato, poma
* a fragment of bread crust
    Synonym: codia
* scab
    Synonym: lastra
* top, head

#### Derived terms

* escarochar

#### Related terms

* carozo
* carocho

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “carocha”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “carocha”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “carocha”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “caroncho, coroza, cresa, cucaracha”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unknown. For sense 3, compare coroça and Spanish coroza.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /kaˈɾɔ.ʃɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /kaˈɾɔ.ʃɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /kaˈɾɔ.ʃa/
* (Portugal) IPA: /kɐˈɾɔ.ʃɐ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /kɐˈɾɔ.ʃɐ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /kɐˈɾɔ.t͡ʃɐ/
* Rhymes: -ɔʃɐ
* Hyphenation: ca‧ro‧cha

### Noun

carocha f (plural carochas)
* any of various beetle-like insects
** 2024 January 18, Raimundo Sales, Manairama - Maldição e Vida‎, Scortecci, →ISBN:Deu também, nesse mesmo ano, uma peste de carocha preta como nunca se vira.That same year, there was also an outbreak of black beetles like never seen before.
* (Portugal) cockroach (type of insect)
    Synonym: barata
* (historical) a kind of dunce cap used during the Spanish Inquisition
    Synonym: coroça
** 1879, Manoel Bernardes Branco, Portugal e os Estrangeiros‎, page 397:[…] Que bem que ficava uma carocha a este herege! […] a dunce cap would look great on this heretic!
** 1866, Charles Dellon, Narração da Inquisição de Goa, vertida em port., e accrescentada com notas, por M.V. d'Abreu‎, page 226:Como elle estava condemnado a fogueira, estava ella já prompta; o réo trazia uma carocha e uma samarra pintada de demonios e tições accesos […]As he was condemned to the stake, it was already prepared; the accused wore a dunce cap and a cloak painted with demons and burning embers […]
* (by extension) witch

### Noun

carocha m (plural carochas)
* Beetle (a line of Volkswagen cars)

### Adjective

carocha
* feminine singular of carocho (“dark”)

### See also

* história da carochinha

### Further reading

* “carocha”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
* “carocha”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* “carocha”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025